We performed a comparison between F-Secure Total and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, ESET and others in Anti-Malware Tools."It's a good product for us. The reports and notifications are very good for us."
"Because it has been integrated with the OS, we get the entire software inventories, and we even get access to the registries. Those are the primary features."
"The attack surface reduction rules are the most valuable. We're able to have unattended remediation actions when the solution works side by side with a local antivirus like Microsoft Defender or Kaspersky. The attack surface reduction rules help us to proactively block and stop threats."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a robust platform."
"It doesn't cause the slowness of the system, which is one of the reasons why I like it."
"It is a very advanced system based on AI. It has a very large database of places or sites on the internet where you should not go. It is continuously online."
"Technical support has been great."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint comes pre-installed in Microsoft Windows."
"It has Kusto Query Language (KQL), so we can use our own queries to find anything."
"I would like to see in the future is EDR protection and a lower price for F-Secure Total."
"It needs to improve the cybersecurity for lateral movements. For example, when a hacker tries to enter a machine, they try to get the password by doing a lateral movement."
"Microsoft Windows Defender doesn't have a game mode."
"The product itself does not necessarily need improvement, but the support and implementation of the product are the disaster cases."
"A concern is ransomware, whether people can penetrate and encrypt my data or steal my credit card/banking information."
"There's a lot of manual effort involved to configure what we need."
"It would be helpful if they offered video tutorial guides."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint should include better automation that will make it faster to detect the latest threats happening across the world."
"This solution needs to move beyond relying on virus definitions alone and protect the system using behavioral analysis of the processes that are running."
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F-Secure Total is ranked 22nd in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Anti-Malware Tools with 182 reviews. F-Secure Total is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F-Secure Total writes "Easy to setup and stable solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint writes "Eliminates the need to look at multiple dashboards by automatically providing one XDR dashboard to show the security score of each subscription". F-Secure Total is most compared with ESET Endpoint Protection Platform, ZoneAlarm, WithSecure Elements Collaboration Protection and ESET PROTECT Enterprise, whereas Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Symantec Endpoint Security, Intercept X Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Trellix Endpoint Security and SentinelOne Singularity Complete.
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